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Afghanistan – as seen by The Graphic weekly newspaper 1879

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Posting dispatches - Afghanistan

Posting dispatches – Afghanistan

“No Afghan ruler will henceforth, unless he is prepared for an immediate rupture, either admit a Russian envoy into his capital, or repel an English Mission.”  The brave words of the Saturday Review, 1879.   

The bold statement was reprinted in the The Graphic, a magazine from London which that week, June 7, 1879, printed its first article referring to the ‘late Afghan War’.  The two pieces that follow, the second on troopship bath-times,  are as produced in the original edition of The Graphic.

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Afghanistan, the Thames and Shanghai in The Graphic May 1879

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Grand Durbar held by General Sir Sam Browne on New Year’s Day in Jellalabad.
Freeing the bridges – the Prince and Princess of Wales at Lambeth Bridge

May 31, 1879, The Graphic, an illustrated weekly newspaper from London, predicts trouble in Afghanistan if the British Army withdraws; celebrates Londoners getting their bridges back; takes a canter round the Shanghai Derby; and has a solution for ‘general debility’.

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Army, Reserves and women – questions of strength

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May 24, 1879, The Graphic, an illustrated weekly newspaper from London, considers the world.  

Here are two articles – the first on the use of army Reserves and the second on the merits of women.  Both are topics being debated today.   The British government is reshaping its military including its reserve forces and the Pentagon is giving women a chance.  

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